Why would what they wear or choose to spend money on have any bearing on their words or their impact on you. Do the words of those wearing hand-me-downs and scraps affect you differently?
Someone with a $10,000 suit and $200,000 car might view as a relatively minor inconvenience what would be economic devastation for folks who would have spent the 10K on a car and the other on a house. It is a question of degree, but also one of frugality.
A 2-3K suit and a 70K car would have sufficed in my circles, if not have been a trifle ostentatious.
As for slick talkers in slick suits, when I was trying to start with investments, and the person heard I only had low 4 figures to work with at the time (making a comeback off an oil bust), they sneered on the phone and said 'call me back when you have at least 50K' and hung up.
I thought 'I'll never call you, you sorry SOB. We all have to start somewhere, but it won't be with you or your firm'.
In '99 the same puke called me back and said he thought it was a great time to invest in tech stocks. I told him that wasn't what my research showed, but thanks for the offer and hung up the phone. Twp weeks later the 'dot bomb' hit.
It''s real simple. If people are dressing like they sit at the no limit table, one of us is in the wrong game.